Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

Would you flee from the Curse, and yet run into Sin? would you escape the Curse, and yet live in Sin? what is this, but as if you would drink poison, and hope you shall live? run into the fire, and imagine you shall not be burnt? Do you cry out under the Curse as a grievous pain, and yet look upon Sin as the greatest pleasure? Is the Curse dreadful, and do you look upon Sin as delightful? Is the Curse intolerable, and can Sin be profitable? Oh learn to look upon Sin through the Curse, and then Sin will appear to be a cursed thing indeed.

Would you flee from the Curse, and yet run into Sin? would you escape the Curse, and yet live in Sin? what is this, but as if you would drink poyson, and hope you shall live? run into the fire, and imagine you shall not be burnt? Do you cry out under the Curse as a grievous pain, and yet look upon Sin as the greatest pleasure? Is the Curse dreadful, and do you look upon Sin as delightful? Is the Curse intolerable, and can Sin be profitable? Oh learn to look upon Sin through the Curse, and then Sin will appear to be a cursed thing indeed.

III. Sin doth cross and thwart the natural Principles which are graven by the finger of God upon the hearts of all men. If you ask whether Sin be now in man's lapsed state according to the nature of man? I answer, with this distinction, there is the corruption of Nature, and so Sin is according to our Nature; as natural for man to sin, as it is for light things to ascend, and heavy to descend; and there are the Principles left in corrupt Nature, and so Sin is still against Nature. In corrupted Nature there are yet remaining Principles that beget an aversation from Misery, and an inclination for the obtaining of Happiness; desires to avoid the Curse, and to procure Blessedness; but Sin is a thwarting of both these; that you cannot sin, but you go against the very Principles left in corrupted Nature, as preservatives to keep down the Corruption of Nature.